Sports

Liberty boys tennis finishes season with 1st state trophy in program history
Liberty boys tennis achieved a first for the program after competing in the Class 3 Team State Championships Thursday, May 22.
- Liberty boys tennis finishes season with 1st state trophy in program history
- Gallery | District Highway 92 showdown
- Smithville baseball finishes season in district semifinals with loss to Kearney
- Gallery | Girls soccer district semifinals
- Boys golf teams finish seasons in state championships
Education

50 1st graders learn to be ‘EPiC’ leaders while helping Liberty Fire Department
- 50 1st graders learn to be ‘EPiC’ leaders while helping Liberty Fire Department
- Liberty High School FRESH Club among 6 schools with most safe driving pledges
- Retirement open house May 20 for Liberty superintendent
- Smithville families can sign up for Feed Northland Kids food kits for summer
- Missouri students could be honored for community service
Outdoors

Summer wildflowers bring effortless color to roadsides, backyards
- Summer wildflowers bring effortless color to roadsides, backyards
- New MU Extension toolkit helps neighborhoods turn shared land into lasting community spaces
- MU Extension recommends treating clothing to repel ticks
- Join MDC May 16 for a virtual program on invasive plants
- Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary celebrates 50th anniversary with story walk
Sports

Liberty boys tennis finishes season with 1st state trophy in program history
Liberty boys tennis achieved a first for the program after competing in the Class 3 Team State Championships Thursday, May 22.
- Liberty boys tennis finishes season with 1st state trophy in program history
- Gallery | District Highway 92 showdown
- Smithville baseball finishes season in district semifinals with loss to Kearney
- Gallery | Girls soccer district semifinals
- Boys golf teams finish seasons in state championships
Education

50 1st graders learn to be ‘EPiC’ leaders while helping Liberty Fire Department
- 50 1st graders learn to be ‘EPiC’ leaders while helping Liberty Fire Department
- Liberty High School FRESH Club among 6 schools with most safe driving pledges
- Retirement open house May 20 for Liberty superintendent
- Smithville families can sign up for Feed Northland Kids food kits for summer
- Missouri students could be honored for community service
Outdoors

Summer wildflowers bring effortless color to roadsides, backyards
- Summer wildflowers bring effortless color to roadsides, backyards
- New MU Extension toolkit helps neighborhoods turn shared land into lasting community spaces
- MU Extension recommends treating clothing to repel ticks
- Join MDC May 16 for a virtual program on invasive plants
- Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary celebrates 50th anniversary with story walk
News

2 more 'Most Wanted' in custody
CLAY COUNTY — On Monday, June 1, the Clay County Prosecutor’s Office released that Michelle Joy Essig and David Santia, who both were featured on the Clay County Top Ten Most Wanted List, have also been taken into custody. Michelle Essig These are the second and third individuals found since the launch of the Clay…
- 2 more ‘Most Wanted’ in custody
- 1st individual arrested after Top 10 list revealed
- Northland woman receives probation after last year’s arrest
- Clay County Prosecutor’s Office, area law enforcement agencies unite to seek top 10 ‘most wanted’
- Missing man’s remains discovered in Smithville
Community Living

Metro families ‘Read, Score, ROAR!’ at MCPL
In an epic mashup of prehistoric and present day, Mid-Continent Public Library’s 2026 Summer Reading Challenge theme of “Read, Score, ROAR!” offers exciting ways for readers of all ages to keep learning all summer long.
- Metro families ‘Read, Score, ROAR!’ at MCPL
- DIVAS ON A DIME: Try some no-grocery trip peanut butter oatmeal cookies
- DONNA ERICKSON’S BEST BITES: Stack caprese salad with couscous in tin can
- SENIOR NEWS LINE: FBI reports senior scam losses hit more than $7.7 billion
- Poolside Palooza postponed to June 26
Multimedia

Gallery | District Highway 92 showdown
Kearney vs Smithville baseball in Class 5 District 8 Tournament Thursday, May 21 at Creekside Baseball Complex.
- Gallery | District Highway 92 showdown
- Gallery | Girls soccer district semifinals
- Gallery | Track and field district championships
- Gallery | Liberty baseball Senior Night
- Gallery | Ken Peek Invitational
Special Sections
Entertainment

MOVIE REVIEW: There are all kinds of 'Pressure'
By Simonie Wilson Question: How do you make a movie about weather scary? Answer: The soundtrack. Volker Bertelmann won an Oscar for “All Quiet on the Western Front” and without his skills here, “Pressure” might just have been another movie about the office. Instead, this film based on a play like “Oslo,” another wartime Andrew…
- MOVIE REVIEW: There are all kinds of ‘Pressure’
- Make Music Day Liberty seeks musicians, singers, venues
- Art on the Side adds Mad Hatter Parade June 6
- Park University seniors exhibit work in Campanella Gallery show
- Northland students win 2026 Blue Star awards
Opinion

Editor offers advice to graduates
Advice may not be worth much these days, but as graduation season winds down, I am going to offer a bit of it as well as advice from a few friends and leaders.
- Editor offers advice to graduates
- Leading breast radiologist offers top advice for graduates
- Find time to be still this spring
- Time to ask best friend for help with worst enemy
- Reader questions benefit of future data center in Liberty




